While the world's largest Muslim organization congratulated new US President Barack Obama on Wednesday and urged him to help foster a constructive dialogue between Islam and the West, reaction to his presidency from the Muslim world was generally (...)
Pakistan on Saturday backtracked on a decision to send its spy chief to India to help with the Mumbai attack investigation, in a move likely to revive questions about who is in charge of the intelligence agency.
The prime minister's office said a (...)
FOR many expatriates, Saudi Arabia can be ‘home sweet home'' only when they are with their families here.
While some opt for a single's life to make a quick buck and return home, others make it their priority to bring their families to the Kingdom (...)
THE 2008 US presidential election will go down in history for its remarkable voter turnout. Not wanting to be left behind, many American expatriates in the Kingdom exercised their voting rights through the process of absentee voting.
“This is the (...)
While the United States elections are the talk of the town, the visit of Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari will be of interest only for those who are concerned with Pakistan and its issues. No doubt Pakistan has become the center of global (...)
ONLY two days are left for the hotly contested American presidential elections.
Across the seas, election fever has caught up with expatriates and overseas Americans in the Kingdom.
“McCain or Obama- let the best person win,” said Layal Zok, a (...)
PAKISTANI expatriates in the Kingdom are appealing to their community members to use their remittances to prop up the country's economy.
Pakistan needs at least $4 billion to avoid defaulting on its foreign debts. The country is facing economic (...)
For taxi driver Mohammed Naeem, who works in the streets of Jeddah day and night to support a large family in his native Pakistan, the unimaginable happened on Wednesday when he lost many of his dear ones in an earthquake that flattened his village (...)
THE World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) have recently released its ‘Doing Business' report for 2009, and there was good news for Saudi Arabia. The report lists the Kingdom and Bahrain as the best places in the Gulf to conduct (...)
THE worldwide credit crunch might have shaken the stock markets globally, but the local business community of expatriates is ostensibly unflustered.
Gulf stock markets suffered heavy losses before rallying back this week after governments in the (...)
THE global financial meltdown has affected the Kingdom also. The effect of one of the worst global financial crises, however, has not been as alarming here as in other countries because of the quick remedial measures taken by the central (...)
Arabiya website, shut down by unknown computer hackers recently, has been restored and all data moved to an alternate domain.
Al-Arabiya issued a statement saying that its website had “come under organized cyber piracy performed by (...)
The Chinese government is understandably conscious of the damage that can be done by the contaminated milk affair, not only to its dairy industry, but to the entire “Made in China” image.
“Exports of Chinese dairy products to foreign markets is (...)
As the Chinese milk scandal continues to cause alarm around the world, concerned parents in Saudi Arabia are asking the same questions as their Asian counterparts.
“It is shocking”, said Saudi mother-of-one Aysha Ba-Usman. “Although I trust other (...)
The holy month of Ramadan offers a good opportunity for many non-Muslim expatriates in Saudi Arabia to join Iftar with their Muslim friends to know the Islamic values and strengthen dialogue.
“I feel more attachment with my colleagues since I (...)
Jeddah Municipality has allotted special stalls to Saudi women vendors to sell low-priced items in the Balad area.
“We wanted to include new stalls in Ramadan to support Saudi women. Hence, almost 40 stalls have been allotted to them through a (...)
JEDDAH has seen a huge boom in new restaurants in recent years, with many eateries gearing up for Ramadan by setting up live cooking stations, temporary tents, traditional food stalls and live entertainment. Thanks to loads of competition, customers (...)
Recently, 70 Saudis were reported to have purchased or attempted to purchase fake university diplomas in the United States spurring the Saudi education authorities to launch an immediate investigation inquiring whether there were Saudis and (...)
Indian expatriates have been granted permission to use the International Indian School Jeddah (IISJ) premises to collect aid for the flood-hit people of the northeastern Indian state of Bihar. The floods have affected the lives of over three million (...)
Indian expatriates have started a drive to collect relief aid for victims of Bihar floods, which have devastated the lives of more than three million people. Members of the Jeddah Chapter of the Bihar Anjuman (BA), a group of expatriates from Middle (...)
The news of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari's sweeping win in presidential poll Saturday was overwhelmingly greeted by his party members in Saudi Arabia.
“He is Nelson Mandela of Pakistan,” said Tasawwar Choudhry, chief (...)
A taxi ride may be the last thing many women in the Kingdom would like to think about, even in the most urgent and demanding situations.
For female commuters, especially working women, taxi transportation can mean a bad experience comprised of the (...)
Team members of the Pakistan Welfare Society (PWS) held a free medical camp in the Pakistan House in Makkah recently.
The medical camp, which was a long-standing demand of the Pakistani community in Makkah, will be run by doctors of PWS till it is (...)
Pakistani expatriates in the Kingdom have shown their concern over the present turbulent situation in their country and are willing to contribute towards the ‘Speaker's relief Fund', initiated by the Ministers of National Assembly (MNA) and the (...)
Jeddah Municipality is conducting raids on beauty salons for using the services of beauticians who are not under the sponsorship of the owners of the salons, which allegedly run in the Kingdom under the garb of tailoring shops.
A number of beauty (...)
